stormful

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The dark stormful indignation of a Byron, so wayward and perverse, may have touches of it; nay the 392withered mockery of a French sceptic,—his mockery of the False, a love and worship of the True.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

But now the light, so to speak, had altered; it was cloudy and stormful; it brought out in vivid relief what before had been clad with the pleasant haze of habit.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

Ou ce monstre inhumain fit eclater la guerre: It was from thy Senate, stormful England, that she first launched out War.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Carlyle, Thomas

Mayer was of Austrian, of half Spanish birth; a musical, really melodious, affectionate, but indignant, wildly stormful mortal; and had had adventures without end.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas

The dark stormful indignation of a Byron, so wayward and perverse, may have touches of it; nay the withered mockery of a French sceptic,—his mockery of the False, a love and worship of the True.

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas